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Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
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Impact of Culture on Leadership: Managing Across Cultures
Peter Drucker
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What is Strategy?
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Strategy
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What is Strategy?
Strategy reflects the pattern of choices an organization makes to position itself for sustained competitive advantage.
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Strategy
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Strategic Thinking: Scanning
1. Assessing where the organization currently is
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Internal External
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Strategic Thinking: Scanning
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Strategic Thinking: Scanning
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What internal capabilities or assets give you a competitive advantage?
What do you do well?
What internal capabilities or assets are you ineffective or inefficient at performing or possessing? What
puts you at competitive disadvantage?
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Strategic Thinking: Scanning
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What conditions or possible future conditions in the external
environment could give you a competitive advantage if taken
advantage of?
What conditions or possible future conditions in the external
environment could put you at a competitive disadvantage and
possibly “do you in?”
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Strategy
InvestDefend Mobilize ResourcesStrategic Alliances
Divest orPrevent Damage
Invest or Collaborate
Opportunities_______________________________________
Threats_______________________________________
Strengths
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Weaknesses
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A Definition of Strategic Leadership
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Who
How
What
Individuals and teamsenact strategic leadership when they
Think, Act, and Influence others
in ways that enhance the organization’ssustainable competitive advantage.
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Strategic Leadership
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Strategy
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Strategic Thinking…
Strategic thinking includes the processes required for collecting, interpreting, generating, and evaluating information and ideas that shape an organization’s enduring success.
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Thinking Acting
Influencing
StrategicLeadershipStrategic
Leadership
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Strategic Thinking…
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The cognitive and social processes required to collect, generate, interpret and evaluate information and ideas
Need to leverage both of these thinking polarities
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Strategic Acting…
• Set Clear Priorities• Create Conditions for Others’ Effectiveness• Make Strategy a “Learning Process”• Act Decisively in the Face of Uncertainty• Act with the Short-term and Long-term in Mind• Have the Courage of Your Convictions
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Strategic Acting…
“Strategic acting is the kind of decision making that commits resources to build enduring success”
- Beatty and Byington, 2010
Strategic decision making is challenging for most leaders because it involves uncertainty and perceived risk
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StrategicLeadershipStrategic
Leadership
Thinking Acting
Influencing
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Establish Priorities (Based on Drivers)
• Set and communicate the 2-3 most critical areas where you and others should be spending your resources (time, money and energy) to be successful.
• Eliminate , if any, mixed signals that you, your organization, or your team might be sending about these priorities.
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Strategic Influencing
• The outcome has strategic implications for the organization
• Commitment is critical• It occurs over long periods of time• It typically involves people from across the organization…
even outside the organization• It interacts with Strategic Thinking and Strategic Acting
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Strategic Influencing
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Strategy
StrategicLeadershipStrategic
Leadership
Thinking Acting
Influencing
“Leaders exercise strategic influence when they do so in service of the long-term success of the organization”
– Beatty and Byington, 2010
• Using influence techniques to build DAC• Takes time• Cannot be accomplished in one interaction
The influencing is not done for one’s own personal gain
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Strategic Influencing (cont.)
• Influence others by connecting at an emotional level• Learn what is important to others• Connect to the organization’s aspirations• Use the power of language
• Build and sustain momentum• Set appropriate expectations• Search out and celebrate the successes• Send consistent messages
• Be open to influence
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Strategy
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Assessing where we are.
Strategy as a Learning Process
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Understanding who we are, and where we want to go.
Learning how to get there.
Making the journey.
Checking our progress.
*Re-assessing where we are.1. In our organization people regularly and realistically assess our organizational strengths and weaknesses. 2. People throughout the
organization share a common vision of its future.
3. People throughout the organization embrace a common set of core values.
4. There is widespread and clear agreement on the two or three most important priorities where we should invest our limited resources.
5. A helpful balance of both bottom-up and top-down direction inform and shape our strategy.
7. Our decisions and behaviors throughout the organization are consistent with our strategy.
9. Our key metrics keep us focused on the two or three top priorities for strategic success.
8. We have metrics related to developing future capability.
6. There is broad agreement in our organization about the culture and leadership behaviors required for us to successful in the future.
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